Report: Unintended Pregnancies Cost Taxpayers $11 Billion A Year

[JBeukema]

A new study by the Guttmacher Institute, a leading reproductive health research and advocacy group, estimates that unintended pregnancies cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $11.1 billion dollars a year. Nearly two-thirds of unintended pregnancies -- roughly a million births -- are publicly funded by Medicaid and other government programs, the report shows.

Unintended Pregnancies Cost Taxpayers $11 Billion A Year: Report